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1.1       root        1: .\" Copyright (c) 1980 Regents of the University of California.
                      2: .\" All rights reserved.  The Berkeley software License Agreement
                      3: .\" specifies the terms and conditions for redistribution.
                      4: .\"
                      5: .\"    @(#)pause.3     6.2 (Berkeley) 4/10/89
                      6: .\"
                      7: .TH PAUSE 3 "April 10, 1989"
                      8: .UC 4
                      9: .SH NAME
                     10: pause \- stop until signal
                     11: .SH SYNOPSIS
                     12: .B pause()
                     13: .SH DESCRIPTION
                     14: .ft B
                     15: Pause is made obsolete by sigpause(3).
                     16: .ft R
                     17: .PP
                     18: .I Pause
                     19: never returns normally.
                     20: It is used to give up control while waiting for
                     21: a signal from
                     22: .IR kill (2)
                     23: or an interval timer, see
                     24: .IR setitimer (2).
                     25: Upon termination of a signal handler started during a
                     26: .I pause,
                     27: the
                     28: .I pause
                     29: call will return.
                     30: .SH "RETURN VALUE
                     31: Always returns \-1.
                     32: .SH ERRORS
                     33: .I Pause
                     34: always returns:
                     35: .TP 15
                     36: [EINTR]
                     37: The call was interrupted.
                     38: .SH "SEE ALSO
                     39: kill(2), select(2), sigpause(2)

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